+-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Note: | | | | Inconsistent hyphenation in the original document has | | been preserved. | | | | Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. For | | a complete list, please see the end of this document. | | | +-----------------------------------------------------------+ * * * * * MARTIN SECKER'S SERIES OF MODERN MONOGRAPHS J.M. SYNGE By P.P. Howe HENRIK IBSEN By R. Ellis Roberts WALTER PATER By Edward Thomas THOMAS HARDY By Lascelles Abercrombie GEORGE GISSING By Frank Swinnerton WALT WHITMAN By Basil de Sélincourt WILLIAM MORRIS By John Drinkwater A.C. SWINBURNE By Edward Thomas Each volume Demy Octavo, Cloth Gilt, with a Frontispiece in Photogravure. Price 7s. 6d. net _The Athenæum_ says: "We congratulate the publisher." _The Spectator_ says: "Mr. Secker's excellent series of critical studies." _The Yorkshire Observer_ says: "Mr. Secker's admirable series." _The Manchester Courier_ says: "This excellent series." _The Illustrated London News_ says: "Mr. Martin Secker's series of critical studies does justice to the publisher's sense of pleasant format. The volumes are a delight to eye and hand, and make a welcome addition to the bookshelf." MARTIN SECKER PUBLISHER NUMBER FIVE JOHN STREET ADELPHI AUTUMN BOOKS The Complete Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann. 6 vols. 5s. net each. Vie de Bohème: A Patch of Romantic Paris. By Orlo Williams. 15s. net. The Art of Silhouette. By Desmond Coke. 10s. net. Walt Whitman: A Critical Study. By Basil de Sélincourt. 7s. 6d. net. Walter Pater: A Critical Study. By Edward Thomas. 7s. 6d. net. Speculative Dialogues. By Lascelles Abercrombie. 5s. net. Dramatic Portraits. By P.P. Howe. 5s. net. PERSONALITY IN LITERATURE _BY THE SAME AUTHOR_ MODERNISM AND ROMANCE PERSONALITY IN LITERATURE BY R.A. SCOTT-JAMES LONDON: MARTIN SECKER NUMBER FIVE JOHN STREET ADELPHI _First published 1913_ WILLIAM BRENDON AND SON, LTD., PRINTERS, PLYMOUTH. CONTENTS PART ONE: LITERATURE AND ART PAGE THE DEGRADATION OF BEAUTY 3 LITERATURE A FINE ART 14 PASSIONS SPIN THE PLOT 42 THE POPULAR TASTE 55